I'll be posting some snapshots and background stories on characters in Hellhole, so readers can meet the people and understand what brought them to a planet that's at the bottom of anyone's list. Tor Books has already published an excerpt of the prologue and first chapter (http://www.tor.com/hellhole/register), so readers have met General Tiber Maximilian Adolphus.  Here's more of his background story: UK cover The Adolphus family had once been important nobles on the Crown Jewel planet Qiorfu, whose prominence and wealth had declined over the generations.  The Lubis Plain shipyards were the planet’s largest source of income -- a dumping...
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Next Tuesday I begin the 13-cities-in-16-days national booksigning tour for Hellhole.  Brian Herbert will accompany me at the Seattle, Portland (OR), San Francisco, Pasadena, Huntington Beach, and San Diego signings, and I'll continue the tour to Denver, Lexington (KY), Dayton (OH), Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston. Click here for the full tour schedule. We will be signing extra copies at each of the stores. If you can't make it to the signing but live in the area, you can contact the store ahead of time and reserve your copy; we will personalize copies if you like.  Many of the stores...
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I recently received the covers for foreign translations of new releases.  So far, according to the best count I have, my work has been translated into 30 languages worldwide. Polish cover for Paul of Dune Italian cover for The Last Days of Krypton German cover for The Trinity Paradox
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The following brief article was written for the Tor newsletter: HELLHOLE: There's No Place Like Home Who says the galaxy has to be a pleasant place to settle down?  I grew up reading space opera stories set on strange alien planets filled with lush flora and exotic creatures, steamy dinosaur-filled jungles on Venus, bleak but poignant lost civilizations on Mars. Of all the planets in habitable zones around stars, a great many may fit in the broad category of “fit for human life,” but that doesn’t mean they’re comfortable for human life.  In the classic Dune, Frank Herbert was one...
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